When children go to a dinosaur museum, are the displays they see
displays of
science or displays of art and science fiction? Are we being deceived
and
brainwashed at an early age into believing a dinosaur myth? Deep
probing
questions need to be asked of the entire dinosaur business.

This article will discuss the possibility that there may have been
an
ongoing effort since the earliest dinosaur "discoveries" to plant,
mix and match bones of various animals, such as crocodiles, alligators,
iguanas, giraffes, elephants, cattle, kangaroos, ostriches, emus,
dolphins,
whales, rhinoceroses, etc. to construct and create a new man-made
concept
prehistoric animal called the dinosaur. This article does not claim that that "dinosaurs never existed" or that "scientists just made up
dinosaurs".
Note the use of the words "possible", "possibly", "possibility", "may", and "could". There is an important difference, between
claiming
something is true, and claiming something is possible.

Where bones from existing animals are not satisfactory for deception
purposes, plaster substitutes may be manufactured and used. Some
material
similar or superior to plasticine clay or plaster of Paris would be
suitable.
Molds may also be employed. A 144-page book titled "Make Your Own
Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones" provides step-by-step instructions
complete with detailed drawings and diagrams.

What would be the motivation for such a deceptive endeavor? Obvious
motivations include trying to prove evolution, trying to disprove or
cast doubt
on the Christian Bible and the existence of the Christian God, and
trying to
disprove the “young-earth theory”. Yes, there are major political and
religious
ramifications.

The dinosaur concept could imply that if God exists, he may have
tinkered
with his idea of dinosaurs for awhile, then perhaps discarded or became
tired
of this creation and then went on to create man. The presented dinosaur
historical timeline could suggest an imperfect God who came up with the
idea of
man as an afterthought, thus demoting the biblical idea that God
created man in
His own image. Dinosaurs are not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Highly rewarding financial and economic benefits to museums,
educational and
research organizations, university departments of paleontology,
discoverers and
owners of dinosaur bones, and the book, television, movie and media
industries
may cause sufficient motivation for ridiculing of open questioning and
for
suppression of honest investigation.

"The class Dinosauria was originally defined by Sir Richard Owen
in
1842, in a two hour speech that reportedly held the audience
captivated. The
original dinosaurs of this new group were Megalosaurus, Iguanodon and
Hylaeosaurus. However, each of these animals was known only from
fragmentary
specimens. It wasn't until the discoveries of dinosaurs in North
America in the
mid-19th century that people began to get a clearer picture of what
dinosaurs
looked like."

"It is generally accepted that the first discovery of dinosaur
remains in North America was made in 1854 by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden
during
his exploration of the upper Missouri River."

"Near the confluence of the Judith and Missouri Rivers (shown
above)
Hayden's party recovered a small collection of isolated teeth which
were later
described by the Philadelphia paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1856, in
the
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia."

So, dinosaurs were described in 1842 before the
discoveries in
1854 that were required to give a clear picture of what dinosaurs
looked like!
Were discoveries made or constructed to fit the descriptions?

"Dinosaur skeletons were found for the first time in abundance in
the Garden Park area of Colorado and at Como Bluff, Wyoming, in the
late 1870s.
These specimens initiated the First Great Dinosaur Rush in North
America,
driven largely by the efforts of a Philadelphia paleontologist, Edward
Drinker
Cope (on the left), and Othniel Marsh (on the right), a paleontologist
from
Yale University."

"These two men started as friends but became bitter rivals in a
feud
of legendary proportions. The stories surrounding these two include
tales of
armed field parties, spies, and intercepting shipments of fossils
intended
for the other." (Bold is mine throughout this article.)

Why were fossils being shipped to the discoverers and from whom? Are
Cope and
Marsh credited with "discoveries" that were not their own personal
"discoveries"? If so, exactly who were really the
"discoverers" and how trustworthy are they?

Wayne Grady explains in his book The Dinosaur Project: "From
Cope, Sternberg had learned cutthroat bone hunting. Cope and his arch
rival,
Othniel Charles Marsh, professor of paleontology at Yale University,
had been
engaged in what have been called 'the bone wars' throughout the 1870s
and
1880s. It was a fierce scientific rivalry that entailed some of the
most
underhanded shenanigans in the history of science, but it also
amassed stupendous
collections of fossils. … The Second Great Dinosaur Rush took place
in the
badlands of the Red Deer River in southern Alberta. Dinosaur remains
had been
known from this region as early as 1884 but it wasn't until 1910 that
this
region became an active collecting area. It was here that the second
great
collecting rivalry took place between Barnum Brown of the American
Museum of
Natural History in New York and C. H. Sternberg of the Geological
Survey of
Canada."

Why should various claims of people, who engaged in "some of the
most
underhanded shenanigans in the history of science", be believed?

Why were there no discoveries by native Americans in all the years
previous
when they roamed the American continents? There is no belief of
dinosaurs in
the native American religion or tradition.

For that matter, why were there no discoveries prior to the
nineteenth
century in any part of the world? According to the World Book
Encyclopedia,
"before the 1800's, no one ever knew that dinosaurs ever existed". "During
the late 1800's and early 1900's, large deposits of dinosaur remains
were
discovered in western North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa."
"Dinosaur deposits also lie in Belgium, Mongolia, Tanzania, West
Germany,
and many other parts of the world."

Why has man suddenly made all these discoveries? The land areas of
Belgium,
Mongolia, Tanzania, western Germany (and the Americas as well) were
inhabited
and very well explored for thousands of years and there were no
discoveries
until the nineteenth century. Why?

At Dinosauria
: Fossil Record we learn that "The late 1800s were the
'golden
age' of dinosaur paleontology, when many animals that you might be
familiar
with were discovered and named. Today we seem to be in another
'dinosaur
renaissance', with new information accumulating rapidly". At The Meaning of the
Hadrosaurus Find:
Proof That Dinosaurs Were Real we learn that people were
allegedly
becoming enlightened by the new discoveries. The impression that I
receive is
that people were possibly being deceived and that the discoveries were
possibly
"being made" as an effort to try to discredit the Bible.

The Meaning of the
Hadrosaurus Find: Proof That Dinosaurs Were Realstates:"The First Real Proof
of Dinosaur Existence
Eight years after this reference book was published the first
comprehensive
skeletal form of a real dinosaur--Hadrosaurus foulkii --was unearthed
in
Haddonfield, New Jersey. Taller than a house, it had the pelvic
structure of
a bird, the tail of a lizard and, incredibly, it walked
upright on
two legs, foraging with arm-like forelimbs."

Were the bones of a bird and lizard and other animals used in the
discovery?
The presented "Haddonfield skeleton" did not prove
"dinosaurs" ever were real living creatures.

Discoverers And
Nature Of
Discoveries

Most people have
handled animal bones and would be able to notice the higher density and
different colour or texture of most so-called fossilized bones.
However, discoveries
and excavations most typically seem not to be made by disinterested
people,
such as farmers, ranchers, hikers, outdoor recreationists, building
construction industry basement excavators, pipeline trench diggers, and
mining
industry personnel but rather by people with vested interests, such as
paleontologists,
scientists, university professors, and museum organization personnel
who were
intentionally looking for dinosaur bones or who have studied dinosaurs
previously. Do dinosaur "professionals", with vested interests, have
some kind of well-kept secret about knowing where to search, that
dinosaur
"amateurs", without vested interests, are unable to figure out? The
finds are often made during special dinosaur-bone hunting trips and
expeditions
by these people to far-away regions already inhabited and explored.
This seems
highly implausible. More believable is the case of the discovery of the
first
original Dead Sea scrolls in 1947, which were unintentionally
discovered by a
child, and which were all published by 1955. In some cases of
discoveries of dinosaur
bones by people, who do not work in a job related to dinosaurs, it was
suggested to them by some dinosaur "professional" to look or dig in a
certain area. In other cases, the
"government" had considerable foreknowledge that dinosaur
"amateurs" would be digging in a certain area. Also very
interesting to note are special areas set aside and designated as
dinosaur
parks for which amateur dinosaur hunters are required to first obtain a
dinosaur hunting license.

Also, a multitude of bones and dinosaurs are strangely found in the
same
place, suggesting possible planting of bones. The following three
paragraphs
are from The Seizure of
Sue the T.
rex.

"The Larsons are still working this find, which they called the
Ruth
Mason Quarry. The find contained the remains of at least two
thousand
beasts. There is only speculation as to the reason so many bones were
in one
place. The river system could have transported the bones a few at a
time to a
sandy coast at the edge of a receding Cretaceous sea. Or a great storm
could
have trapped and drowned a herd on a spit of land. A preponderance of
the
fossils were of Emontosaurus annectens a duckbilled dinosaur which
migrated in
flocks. Various carnivores teeth, including that of T. rex, were also
found at
the site, which could simply mean that these beasts were scavenging the
remains. 'We're only guessing', said Pete."

"In July, 1990, Maurice Williams, who had a ranch nearby, came by
the quarry. He was fascinated by work, and offered to let the
paleontologists
search for fossils on his land. Pete told him he appreciated the offer
and
would do so at the earliest opportunity. On the morning of August 12,
the team
suffered a flat tire. Their spare was low and the pump was broken. Most
of the
crew decided to take the tires to Faith in another vehicle for repair.
Susan
Hendrickson, a Seattle archaeologist and amateur paleontologist who was
working
with BHIGR that summer, decided to take a hike through Williams' land
instead."

"She returned to the quarry several hours later finding the team
back at work with three pieces of vertebrae. Pete thought immediately,
Tyrannosaurus. The team saddled up and drove to the site she'd
discovered, a
60-foot sandstone cliff jutting out of the prairie. At about eye level,
a huge
femur (thigh bone) protruded, along with several other bones. Pete
immediately
sought out Williams, who said, I've ridden by that place a hunnerd
times. Never
saw a thing."

It is unusually coincidental that a "commercial fossil collecting
firm" would be the organization to make the dinosaur find. Why was
rancher
Williams unable to find "Sue" after all his years of ranching? Don't
you find this unusual? The article T-Rex
bones on sale
for a cool $12 million indicates that the business of being a
"commercial fossil collecting firm" is potentially very lucrative!

People who work for museums often seem to be the ones associated
with the
really prolific finds:

A discovery
in a remote area of Argentina is described: "In November 1997,
Dr.
Luis Chiappe and Dr. Lowell Dingus went to Patagonia with an expedition
team
and discovered a nesting site that contained thousands of
dinosaur eggs,
including fossilized embryos and fossilized skin. ... The concentration
of eggs
was so intense and rich that, in an area of roughly 100 yards
by 200
yards, we counted about 195 clusters of eggs."

Comptons Encyclopedia lists some prominent paleontologists and their
prolific discoveries:
"Ameghino, Florentino (1854-1911). Argentinian
paleontologist who described 6,000 fossil species excavated by his
brother,
Carlos, in Argentina, thereby establishing Argentina's reputation as a
fossil-rich area. Briefly head of paleontology at La Plata Museum,
where much
of his collection is displayed. .... Douglass, Earl (1862-1931). United States dinosaur hunter who,
in Utah in
1909, found the fossil-rich beds now forming Dinosaur National
Monument. Over
his entire career, sent 350 tons of excavated dinosaur bones to
the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh."

Finds of huge quantities of fossilized bones in one area, or by one
or few
people, goes against the laws of natural probability and suggests a
possible
concentrated planting effort. Floods, volcanic eruptions, and
landslides
scatter bones far and wide. Dinosaurs
in herds,
or grouped together, would not have all died at the same place unless
there was
some kind of extremely rare and unusual event such as a sudden mass
extinction.
The number of dinosaurs, that would have been in herds or grouped
together at
the time of some kind of sudden mass extinction event, would have been
very
tiny relative to all the dinosaurs that are alleged to have ever lived.
Dinosaurs “were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160
million
years” according to Wikipedia,
and the lifespans of individual dinosaurs are estimated to have been
“about 75
to 300 years”, according to Walking With
Dinosaurs.

"More than 30 complete skeletons, 12,000
individual
bones and several dinosaur eggs have come from this prolific fossil
bed."
... "Over the years, bones have been taken from the quarry representing
at
least 70 different animals and 14 species. Cast and
original
skeletons assembled from these bones are on display in over 60 museums
world-wide..."

"About 147 million years ago this area was a shallow freshwater
lake
with a muddy bottom. Plant-eating dinosaurs and the meat-eaters who
preyed upon
them occasionally became trapped in the mud. As the years passed, the
skeletons
of these animals accumulated until the site became a complex mix of
bones."

"After the lake bottom dried up it was covered with volcanic ash;
and rivers and shallow seas deposited thick layers of sand and mud on
top.
Meanwhile, the bones fossilized. Millions of years later water and wind
eroded
the layers to produce the topography seen today. The bones are now
close enough
to the surface to be recovered by scientific excavations."

I have difficulty believing that so many clumsy dinosaurs became
stuck in
mud, and that circumstances are just so that all these bones are now on
or near
the surface of the earth. Why do we have so many dinosaur fossils but
few or
none of the fossilized bones of many extant animals, such as the bison
that
roamed North America?

"We ... now commonly use strips of burlap soaked in plaster to
jacket over our finds. After applying a tissue separator to keep
the
plaster from direct contact with the surface of the bone, the soaked
burlap
strips are laid onto our pedestaled fossil until they cover it in a
half shell.
... The end result is a bone totally encased in a protective mummy-like
fieldjacket and ready for safe transport."

So preparers and transporters work with plaster all the time!
Plaster lying
around therefore does not draw questions or suspicion.

"Through moldmaking and casting we can totally fabricate
limbs, ribs, vertebrae, etc. for the missing pieces of an articulated
skeletal
mount. Plaster, fiberglass and epoxies are often and commonly
used. In reconstruction
work on single bones, small to large cracks can be filled in with mache
or plaster mixed with dextrin, a starch that imparts an adhesive
quality and
extra hardness to regular molding plaster. We've also had success using
epoxy
putties. Large missing fragments can be sculpted directly
in place
with these same materials."

"Even fossils that are difficult, nigh near impossible to collect
in
the field, are harder still to prepare in the lab. Specimens that take
from a
day to a week to remove from their beds of stone can require months
or
even years to clean, consolidate, repair and reconstruct for
study
or display. This is an art and skill of the preparator (a term that
appears to
have first been used in North America)."

What exactly is taking months or years? Is the public being given
altered
versions of bones? What exactly is going on? Is this science or art and
science
fiction? Is the public being deceived?

"The original reconstruction of Hadrosaurus foulkii featured a
creature in a kangaroo stance--an animal that used its tail as a third
leg. At the
same time, while the excavated fossil was nearly complete, it lacked a
skull.
Because parts of its skeleton resembled those of an iguana, the
skull of a
modern iguana was used as a model for the skull created for the
original
display in 1868. That sculpted skull (above, right) is
currently on
display at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia as a
historical
curiosity."

In a museum reconstruction of some supposed past living creature,
bones or
"fossilized bones" from different types of creatures should never
have to be knowingly mixed together in some public display of the
reconstruction. Bones from modern animals should not be sculpted by
someone and
used in the museum reconstruction of some purported ancient creature.

From elementary
school curriculum, we learn that, in elementary schools, they're
teaching
students how to make their own fossils and what paleontologists do. Do
paleontologists make their own fossils too?

Known Bone
Sculpture & Bone Carving Activities

The possibility exists that key dinosaur bones on display have been
artificially modified through sculpture and carving. Bone sculpture is
not an
unknown human activity. Many cultures participate in creating man-made
objects
out of existing bones, totally unrecognizable from the original shape.
Is the
dinosaur industry a customer of this sort of business?

Is it possible that dinosaur skeleton replica are secretly assembled
or manufactured
in private buildings out of public view, with bones artificially
constructed or
used from a number of different modern-day animals? Why bother having
any
authentic original fossils at all if alleged replicas
can please the public?

Credibility Of
Dinosaur
Displays And Artistic Impressions

Many displays and drawings of dinosaurs appear to be an absurdity,
showing a
two-legged animal that would be totally off-balance, with the weight of
head
and abdomen much greater than weight of tail, which is supposed to act
as a
counter-balance.

Is the dinosaur industry a case of science trying to meet public
desires or
expectations? The movie Jurassic Park is an example of showing
dinosaurs much
larger than any current displays in museums. After the movie came out,
it is
interesting to note that many articles were written asking "Is this
possible?". I recall a report of dinosaur DNA being discovered
preserved
in amber, which later turned out to be false.

At a description of Mill Canyon
Dinosaur
Trail we learn of dinosaur tracks being given credibility. Do
you not
find it rather difficult to believe that erosion and weathering would
not
destroy prints that are allegedly millions of years old?

Archaeopteryx, the ever-popular transitional form, is no
real fossil evidence for evolution. "But, Sir Fred Hoyle, the
prominent British scientist, in his book Archaeopteryx the
Primordial Bird,
"a case of fossil forgery," says that someone took a small
fossil, put cement on it, and pressed a modern feather into the cement
to
create a forgery. The person then sold it to the British Museum for
36,000 gold
marks, a hefty sum in 1861."

Radiometric Dating

The original living material, and the material that is used to
produce its
fossil, are often two different things, and thus the ages of both are
different
as well. Most alleged ancient fossils are found near the surface
of earth,
and are dated by the age of the rocks near where they are
found. If a
modern-day animal was to die and its remains found in the same
location, would
it be dated the same age of the alleged ancient fossil?

According to Margaret J. Helder, Ph.D., in her book Completing
The
Picture, A Handbook On Museums And Interpretive Centres Dealing With
Fossils,
"Scientists used to be very impressed with the potential of
radiometric
for coming up with absolutely reliable ages of some kinds of rocks.
They do not
feel that way anymore. Having had to deal with numerous calculated
dates which
are too young or too old compared with what they expected, scientists
now admit
that the process has many more uncertainties than they ever would have
supposed
in the early years. The public knows almost nothing about uncertainties
in the
dating of rocks. The impression that most people have received is that
many
rocks on earth are extremely old and that the technology exists to make
accurate measurements of these ages. Scientists have become more and
more aware
however that the measurements which the machines make, may tell us
nothing
about the actual age of the rock."

Fossilization

Margaret J. Helder continues to explain: "Under what
circumstances
did whole organisms remain intact long enough to be fossilized? In most
cases
it seems, these victims were rapidly buried in great loads of sediment,
which
quickly hardened into rock. Not only did these situations require
catastrophic
burial but also the sediment involved had to be very fine grained in
order for
such exquisite preservation of detail to come about. Geologists
generally
interpret silt beds as the result of fine particles settling gradually
out of
still water. If that had happened in these instances, the corpses would
have
decayed long before burial and lithification (turning to rock) could
occur."

The replacement process is supposed to involve calcium phosphate, or
calcium
hydroxylapatite, in skeletal material being replaced, atom by atom, by
silica,
calcite, pyrite, dolomite, etc., over a long period of time. This
goes
against the
natural
law of increasing disorder. How are all these dead atoms
intelligent enough to know what to do and where to go to produce the
finished
fossil?

Another alleged mode of preservation is permineralization, whereby
porous
bone structures are supposed to become more dense by the deposition of
mineral
matter by groundwater. The more porous the bone, the more susceptible
it is to
destruction. In Speed and
Conditions of
Fossilization, we learn that "secondary mineralization,
remineralization, leaching of bone mineral, and biologically-induced
mineralization begin very rapidly after the bone is exposed to the
environment.
If the bone is not buried or underwater within 1-2 years of defleshing,
it will
literally become dust in the wind. The bone fragments may persist for
several
more years, but they are unrecognizable as to species." What
percentage of land animals'
bodies die near water and then fall into that water? "Hypersaline
environments
in which carbonates are precipitating favor bone remineralization and
secondary
mineralization. Saline environments also are good, but there the
processes are
slower." Are not dinosaurs supposed to have lived in a
relatively
non-saline fresh water environment? Inducing mineralization under ideal
laboratory conditions is one matter, but completely different than
real-world
natural processes that tend to dissolve, not precipitate, bone
mineral. Once the internal part of a decaying bone fills up with
saline
water from a sea, I am unaware of any reason why it should be a
preferred
location for mineral precipitation compared to the rest of the sea
bottom.

Fossilization is also discusssed at Evolution versus Creation,
where we learn that "... there are no fossils being formed today on
a
large scale like they did many years ago ... when a fish dies, it
doesn't sink
to the bottom of the ocean and become a fossil, it merely decays and is
eaten
by other fish or animals. Even today, there is hardly a trace of the
millions
of buffalo that once existed, but were slaughtered all over the plains
just a
couple of generations ago. (Some herds were big enough to cover a whole
state)."

"The dinosaurs' large size has presented palaeontologists with an
interesting
paradox. Calculations of the structural dynamic stresses within the
bones of
the largest dinosaurs indicate that they were too large to move fast
without
injuring themselves. Contrary to this view is the fact that detailed
bio-mechanical reconstructions indicate that they were agile, active
creatures."

"Depending on the arguments used, a particular dinosaur can be
reconstructed in two ways, slow and lumbering, or fast and agile, with
both
sides of the argument appearing equally valid."

"One method of finding out more about Dinosaurs is to study their
structural dynamics. This method considers the loads and forces acting
on the
structure of their skeleton as they moved. The Dinosaurs'
structural
dynamics indicates that the loads acting on their skeletons where much
greater
than that of present day animals. In some causes, because of the
Dinosaurs'
large size, calculations indicate that the bones of the largest
Dinosaurs were
likely to buckle and crack under their own immense weight.These calculations were responsible for
promoting the idea that the Dinosaurs must have moved very slowly to
prevent
sudden shocks to their skeleton."

"This idea of slow moving animals does not agree with the
bio-mechanical analysis of dinosaurs, which indicate that the Dinosaurs
where
agile, active creatures. This is the paradox between the Dinosaurs size
and
lifestyle."

"One method of discovering more about Dinosaurs is to perform a
bio-mechanical analysis. This method considers how the Dinosaurs
must have
moved and acted in order to survive. It relies on comparing the
structures of today's living animals with those of the Dinosaurs in
order to
establish how Dinosaurs moved and acted. This method indicates that the
Dinosaurs
must have been agile, active creatures."

"The idea of active animals does not agree with the study of the
structural dynamics of the Dinosaurs, which indicates that if the
Dinosaurs
moved as fast as present day creatures they would injure themselves.
This is
the paradox between the Dinosaurs size and lifestyle."

There is a simpler solution to these paradoxes other than having to
reduce
earth's gravity!

Job 40:17

Some people point to Job 40:17 as evidence that dinosaurs are
mentioned in
the Bible. They state that only dinosaurs could fit the
description of
having a "tail like a cedar".

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are
wrapped
together.
(Job 40:17, KJV)

However, Bible translations other than the King James version
clearly reveal
that alternative understandings are possible for what this verse is
actually
stating.

He doth bend his tail as a cedar, The sinews of his thighs are
wrapped
together,
(Job 40:17, YLT)

Job 40:17 could be stating that the behemoth bends his tail with the
same
ease and speed that he bends a cedar tree, such as would be required in
clearing land. Indeed, this is consistent with his strength and
force (Job
40:16) and suggests his usefulness as being a beast of burden for
man. God
made the behemoth with man (Job 40:15).

His tail [1] sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are
close-knit.
(Job 40:17, NIV)

He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs
are knit
together.
(Job 40:17, RSV)

Alternatively, Job 40:17 could be stating that the tail of a
behemoth sways
in the same manner that a cedar tree sways, or that the behemoth makes
his tail
as stiff as a cedar tree.

The behemoth could very well be the elephant. The elephant is a
beast
of burden for man in that it is used to move tree logs, such as cedar
logs,
with its trunk and tusks (Job 40:17). The elephant can move these
logs
around like it moves its tail. In India and some other Asian
countries,
elephants are used in the logging industry. An elephant can move a
log
that weighs 600 pounds. It lifts smaller logs with its tusks and
holds
them with its trunk. An elephant can knock down a tree 30 feet
high that
has a diameter of two feet. Elephants eat grass, shrubs, leaves,
roots,
bark, and branches. Wild elephants drink up to 40 gallons of water
daily. The Matthew
Henry Commentary on Job 40 concurs with the idea of the
behemoth being
the elephant.

Since other logical explanations are available for what the behemoth
is,
other than the "dinosaur", there is no requirement for Christians to
consider the behemoth of Job 40 to be the dinosaur or to even believe
in
dinosaurs.

"Dinosaur" bones sell for a lot of money at auctions. It is a
profitable business. There is pressure for academics to publish papers.
Museums
are in the business of producing displays that are popular and
appealing. Movie
producers and the media need to produce material to sell to stay in
business.
The mainstream media loves to hype alleged dinosaurs finds. Much
is to be
gained by converting a bland non-dinosaur discovery, of a bone of
modern
origin, into an impressive dinosaur find, and letting artists'
interpretations
and imaginations take the spotlight, rather than the basic boring real
find.
There are people who desire and crave prestige, fame and attention.
There is
the bandwagon effect and crowd behaviour. And then there are people and
entities pursuing political and religious agendas.

During the nineteenth century a new world view of evolution was
being
pursued by then influential people such as Darwin and Marx. During this
era of
thought the first dinosaur discoveries were made. Were these
discoveries
"made" to try to make up for inadequacies in the fossil record for
the theory of evolution?

The pro-evolutionary bias is evident with this organization
promoting
dinosaur discoveries.

The
majority of governments
in the world today operate on some basis of government that uses a
political
philosophy other than that found in Romans 13:1,
Colossians
1:16-17
and 1
Timothy 1:17.
As one example, the “...government of the United States of America
is not in
any sense founded on the Christian Religion...”, according to
Article 11 of
the Treaty
of Peace and Friendship, signed at Tripoli on November 4, 1796,
and
passed by the United States Congress. Article VI, Clause 2 of the
U.S.A.
Constitution states: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
States
which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties
made, or
which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be
the
supreme Law of the Land...”.

State
funding of
organizations that promote the dinosaur
concept could be considered strategic psychological
warfare
against a state that uses a Christian doctrinal basis for government
since the
Christian Bible comes complete with the account of God’s creation in
the book
of Genesis and the genealogy of
Jesus.
State-funded organizations
claim that “dinosaurs
went extinct some 64-66 million years ago” while Christians claim that
the
“Bible says the world is about six thousand years old”. According to Tom
Deméré, San
Diego Natural History Museum, “Fossils are the
remains and/or traces of prehistoric life. The critical factor is age.
Fossils
have to be older than 10,000 years, the generally accepted temporal
boundary
marking the end of the last Pleistocene glacial event.”.

As
mentioned earlier, motivations for the possible invention of the
dinosaur
include trying to prove evolution, trying to disprove or cast doubt on
the
Bible and the existence of God, and trying to disprove the “young-earth
theory”.

Summary

The following issues raise red flags as to the integrity of the
dinosaur
industry and cast doubts as to whether dinosaurs ever existed:

(1) dinosaur fossilized bone discoveries having occurred only within
the
last two centuries and in huge unusual concentrated quantities going
against
the laws of nature and probability;

(2) dinosaur discoverers generally, and most typically, not being
disinterested parties without a vested interest;

(3) the nature of public display preparation, calling into question
the
integrity and source of fossils, and allowing for the possibility of
tampering
and bone substitution, and the possibility of fraudulent activities on
a
systemic basis;

(4) existing artistic drawings and public exhibits showing
off-balance and awkward
postures that basic physics would rule out as being possible;

(5} very low odds of all these dinosaur bones being fossilized but
relatively few bones of other animals;

(6) implications of dinosaur discoveries to the theory of evolution
and the
belief that man was created in God's image, suggesting possible hidden
and
subtle political or religious agendas served on a naive and
unsuspecting
public; and,

(7) a lack of funding for organizations and people questioning or
being
skeptical of each and every discovery and public display.

Conclusion

The possibility exists that living dinosaurs never existed. "Jesus
said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible
to him
that believeth” (Mark 9:23).

The dinosaur industry should be investigated and questions need to
be asked.
I am unaware of any evidence or reason for absolutely believing
dinosaurs ever
were alive on earth. The possibility exists that the concept of
prehistoric
living dinosaurs has been a fabrication of nineteenth and twentieth
century
people possibly pursuing an evolutionary and anti-Bible and
anti-Christian
agenda.

The past existence of living dinosaurs has not yet been proven.
Questioning
what is being told instead is a better choice rather than blindly
believing the
dinosaur story. Issues should be carefully considered for the sake of
good
science. "O Timothy, keep that
which is
committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and
oppositions of
science falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20).

The choice between believing the word of man, the evolutionists, or
the word
of God, the Bible, is a matter of faith.

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